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has achieved the level of diversity that it needs to accomplish its educational mission. the court has to make its own independent judgment. the wave that they would go of making an independent judgment is look at the kind of information the university considered and could be information about the composition of the class, information a backlash from diversity, retention and graduation rates, information about the specifics of the university's context of history. a history of racial incidents or trouble are not. and then what the court has to do is satisfy itself that the university substantiated its conclusion based upon that, based on the uprising considered . needs to consider race to further enhance the educational goals that have been identified as a compelling interest. an idea of the s and number of minority enrollees g tired the burden is going to get harder to meet. a few scenes out want to touch on. first, as we have pointed out, that really relates to merit and that want to make clear that we do not accept the premise of the footnote that she would not have ent
has achieved the level of diversity that it needs to accomplish its educational mission. the court has to make its own independent judgment. the wave that they would go of making an independent judgment is look at the kind of information the university considered and could be information about the composition of the class, information a backlash from diversity, retention and graduation rates, information about the specifics of the university's context of history. a history of racial incidents...
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than the usual education. you learn how to deal with other people and how to deal with the authority and be creative in any job market place. there's discipline associated with it. all these things you learn how to handle money. this is an experience all americans have had since the beginning of the country in the current generation. i think it is a serious problem. >> how does that fit into your "its a jetson's world"? >> i try not to draw attention to the miracles which i think is important to be aware of how wonderful the digital world has become to be conscious of it and then to be aware of the problems in the way the regulations of kind of caused the dilapidation and the physical world but i also try to provide solutions. i think it's important that people realize even in an age of local despotism, you have to still live a full and free life and whenever you can. and so this is one of the solutions i said just for young people is get to work and find a place you can volunteer your efforts and integrate yo
than the usual education. you learn how to deal with other people and how to deal with the authority and be creative in any job market place. there's discipline associated with it. all these things you learn how to handle money. this is an experience all americans have had since the beginning of the country in the current generation. i think it is a serious problem. >> how does that fit into your "its a jetson's world"? >> i try not to draw attention to the miracles which...
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and that's because the education system has developed in a way where people are getting educated for a certain type of job which is a public sector job, not for a private sector job. the incentives are in the wrong place. high fuel subsidies that have sort of characterized the region's type of social safety net is also a big problem. it's not just a big problem because it's costly to defisk, it's also a big problem because they're regressive. they don't even target the population you want to target because rich people have bigger houses, more cars, more appliances, etc. and they tend to go to industry. but by going to industry, there's a double burden there because you're actually subsidizing one input, which is fuel, while taxing labor, yet your main opportunity is a big labor force. you want to take advantage of the human capital, yet policy is pushing industry to take advantage of fuel instead. there's also the poor business climate which has been recognized in a number of reports. we have one that came out before the arab spring privilege to competition where the private sector's
and that's because the education system has developed in a way where people are getting educated for a certain type of job which is a public sector job, not for a private sector job. the incentives are in the wrong place. high fuel subsidies that have sort of characterized the region's type of social safety net is also a big problem. it's not just a big problem because it's costly to defisk, it's also a big problem because they're regressive. they don't even target the population you want to...
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i want to educate kids and i want to help them and i want to do what i can for marines. so let's start a scholarship fund. she said, well, on top of that, how much money do you think you can raise? i said, i don't know, about a million dollars. and she said, all right, we'll give you about a year. within four months, i raised $1.2 million. i did on my first 12 scholarships yesterday. it has been great. [applause] with that, i teamed up to go out and try to get veterans jobs. we are going out and speaking and i'm trying to help guys get jobs. i am standing up trying to make a difference. i hope when you read the book, you go home and you read everything that i talk about and how it makes a difference. and i want to say that i am going on and speaking and doing it for the men and women who sacrificed so much. because every day that you don't do that, if you don't do the best you can, you are disgracing all those men and women who have paid so much for. and i want to let you know something. i'm not okay with that. are you? thank you so much. i really appreciate it. [applaus
i want to educate kids and i want to help them and i want to do what i can for marines. so let's start a scholarship fund. she said, well, on top of that, how much money do you think you can raise? i said, i don't know, about a million dollars. and she said, all right, we'll give you about a year. within four months, i raised $1.2 million. i did on my first 12 scholarships yesterday. it has been great. [applause] with that, i teamed up to go out and try to get veterans jobs. we are going out...
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managing to out perform and outclass those of high birth and formal education. throughout her career she was honored with the middle, from america and france. but her coup de grace came in 1959 when queen elizabeth awarded her game commander of the british empire for her contribution to 20th century literature. now, how do we account for the success of these two women? pure raw intelligence and drive, certainly, but there were other smart and ambitious women. what distinguished thompson and west was their courage to jettison the constraints of the past, break the rules and forge a path for women in journalism and literature at a time of great political upheaval. their influence was of perception, character, drive, and the guts to speak truth to power, at a time that was cataclysmic in world history. in short, they felt an overriding sense of historical mission, and were willing to do everything to make their voices heard. but there was a danger in their ambition, a dark side, which is exactly why i named my book "dangerous ambition." it was certainly heroic, but
managing to out perform and outclass those of high birth and formal education. throughout her career she was honored with the middle, from america and france. but her coup de grace came in 1959 when queen elizabeth awarded her game commander of the british empire for her contribution to 20th century literature. now, how do we account for the success of these two women? pure raw intelligence and drive, certainly, but there were other smart and ambitious women. what distinguished thompson and...
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matter of fact, made a film called "0%" to be on nationwide tv soon that actually describes the whole education program. >> what's that experience like teaching there? >> well, i'll tell you it is such an emotional drilling, rewarding experience, both for my wife and i, to teach these young men and some older people who have committed hap -- heinous crimes and murder and what have you, see the error of their ways and turn things around, and that education process as well as the ministry program is extremely important. there's nothing like the graduation ceremony. they bring in a major name of one sort. warren buffet was there a few years ago because his sister, as a matter of fact, is a major supporter of hudson link, the non-profit organization. you go to the graduation ceremony, and it's just incredible. first of all, there's no separation of church and state. they have opening and closing prayers. they are saying amens, hold bibles or korans or what have you, but they always have a valedictorian get up representing the graduates, and there's usually maybe 20-30 students graduating, getting a
matter of fact, made a film called "0%" to be on nationwide tv soon that actually describes the whole education program. >> what's that experience like teaching there? >> well, i'll tell you it is such an emotional drilling, rewarding experience, both for my wife and i, to teach these young men and some older people who have committed hap -- heinous crimes and murder and what have you, see the error of their ways and turn things around, and that education process as well...
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it really is a key issue in what is talked about with regard to education. so many young people don't understand that those subjects are the ones that will be the key for us having a job in the 21st century. it will be very technologically oriented with regard to the positioning for good jobs. people with good math and science backgrounds will be able to find jobs in many areas, and that is a key issue for any young people who are thinking about going to college and trying to pursue higher education and. >> it is time for jane now in calabasas. >> did you attend a catholic high school in new york city? >> yes, i did. i attended an academy. it is closed now, but i graduated in 1965. >> are you so they're? >> didn't have an influence on you? >> i was wondering why the question. >> my high school definitely had an influence on me. it helped me understand what the fundamentals are and foundations of education. i know a lot of my friends went to school where they could take shop and stuff like that. you could not do it at my school. everything was academically or
it really is a key issue in what is talked about with regard to education. so many young people don't understand that those subjects are the ones that will be the key for us having a job in the 21st century. it will be very technologically oriented with regard to the positioning for good jobs. people with good math and science backgrounds will be able to find jobs in many areas, and that is a key issue for any young people who are thinking about going to college and trying to pursue higher...
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lamontagne on higher education. >> thank you and good evening to you. lamontagne: good evening. >> mr. lamontagne, you have recently stated you support increasing state scholarship aid for students in new hampshire. how much money are we talking about, and who should get that money? how much can the state afford? can you provide some detail for us? lamontagne: thank you very much for the question. as a former teacher myself for three years as a high school social studies teacher, chairman of the state board of education and a father of two wonderful women who went through our school system here in new hampshire, i care deeply about education. and higher education is very important be both at the community college and the four-year degree program level. however, not all of our families can support or can afford what it costs to send their children to higher education. that's why i support a targeted scholarship approach if there's additional monies to be invested in higher education here in new hampshire. beginning with the community college. i have a le
lamontagne on higher education. >> thank you and good evening to you. lamontagne: good evening. >> mr. lamontagne, you have recently stated you support increasing state scholarship aid for students in new hampshire. how much money are we talking about, and who should get that money? how much can the state afford? can you provide some detail for us? lamontagne: thank you very much for the question. as a former teacher myself for three years as a high school social studies teacher,...
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the one part of education that we on is higher education except we are deliberately trying to kill it. taking the best and the brightest. they get their ph.d. your masters and resend them overseas. they can't teach here, do research. they go and build industries overseas and start making the overseas universities better. you're not going to reverse that easily. it is a tipping point. i don't know what. but something like 3 million until jobs in this country that possesses just cannot find qualified people. and it is not incidentally just educated. alabama and places like that, lot of their crops this year just rotted in the field. they could not give people to pick the crop. if this were politically easy would not be having this conversation. he has to make people feel better. my family, make my family feel better. my son is a physics major. you let in a lot of foreign science technology engineering. are you diluting his job market? my sister lives in amarillo, texas. there were. what are you going to tell? >> number one, no one is coming across the border. we spent a fortune on techn
the one part of education that we on is higher education except we are deliberately trying to kill it. taking the best and the brightest. they get their ph.d. your masters and resend them overseas. they can't teach here, do research. they go and build industries overseas and start making the overseas universities better. you're not going to reverse that easily. it is a tipping point. i don't know what. but something like 3 million until jobs in this country that possesses just cannot find...
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he knew that education was the key to a better life. but i really think he thought all of us would come right back home and try to work from there. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >>> up next on booktv, jeff cohen and john chase report on the political ascendancy and demise of rod blagojevich, former governor of illinois. the authors utilize several resources including fbi phone transcripts to examine the former governor's actions that led to his impeachment. this is about an hour. [applause] >> well, hi. i'm sure everybody can hear me, but i'll scoot closer. thanks very much for having us out. we appreciate the book stall bringing us in. most people don't realize it's actually the last bookstore in the northern suburbs of chicago. um, that's actually a joke. [laughter] but anyway, we're really happy to be here. this is, actually, our first signing event for this project, so it means a lot to have people out and, um, to hear about the work. so, um, and thanks for the introduction, sara. she's left. >> in t
he knew that education was the key to a better life. but i really think he thought all of us would come right back home and try to work from there. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >>> up next on booktv, jeff cohen and john chase report on the political ascendancy and demise of rod blagojevich, former governor of illinois. the authors utilize several resources including fbi phone transcripts to examine the former governor's actions that led to his...
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population system, although the libyan education system lacks in many ways as we know. but libya, their scenarios -- and i'm happy to talk about it in the q&a -- where libya comes out better than tunisia and egypt because it has those special, special types of resources that could come together to avoid a somalia-like situation. um, just quickly on tunisia, um, and i apologize to those who have heard me speak on this before, i saw the tunisia arab spring as kind of two, split in two to oversimplify. but there was a rural, male, older, more working class, more up employed, angrier arab spring based a lot on the algerian protest which has been sort of roiling since 2005, and there was an urban, both gender, younger, more middle and upper class, more socially networked, more employed, more hopeful, more human rights-oriented arab spring which kind of pushed the revolution over the top. and that's that secondary wrap spring in tunisia revolution that worked because of that. but the first one hasn't been accomplished, and i think the main source of instability in tuni that f
population system, although the libyan education system lacks in many ways as we know. but libya, their scenarios -- and i'm happy to talk about it in the q&a -- where libya comes out better than tunisia and egypt because it has those special, special types of resources that could come together to avoid a somalia-like situation. um, just quickly on tunisia, um, and i apologize to those who have heard me speak on this before, i saw the tunisia arab spring as kind of two, split in two to...
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for education, he listed occidental college, columbia university, and harvard law. listed his grades is not available. his interests were basketball, marxist literature, writing about myself, talking about myself, making money, and saving the world. and the mainstream media fell in love with this highly qualified applicant. they fell in love with him because they liked the trifecta of the first black male liberal president. it didn't hurt that he went to the college is that the mainstream media adored. sarah palin attended all kinds of colleges, she was a sportscaster, helped her husband, became mayor, and one becoming the first woman to serve as government in the state's entire history. but the media went after her wetter than swoon like they did with president obama. katie couric tried her best to derail sarah palin. she spent a full day with her. she asked sarah palin what newspapers she read. she didn't name any that katie couric approved of. so she did love. this is different. it was sarah palin. katie couric had what she wanted. can you imagine if katie couric
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education. we don't have -- we reached the same criteria. we are still lacking and i get an education at the school. i just don't understand. they have no qualified school that is on the same level with these schools and professors on the same level. uc-irvine saying? >> host: here is the 28 president of the university of texas at austin writing in today's wall street journal traer. he writes history repeats itself when they are in an ironic way the university of texas goes before the supreme court to defend the missions. it lasted 62 years ago when he men's white and african-american work from houston, the university consideration of race that of course had been denied admission because of his race. the university lost that case but america one. they became one of the first leg should universities in the former confederacy to integrate and goes on to see my university kept blacks out. now texas we assure that the grand children can enter. in the opinion back in 2003 adam referred to, justice sa
education. we don't have -- we reached the same criteria. we are still lacking and i get an education at the school. i just don't understand. they have no qualified school that is on the same level with these schools and professors on the same level. uc-irvine saying? >> host: here is the 28 president of the university of texas at austin writing in today's wall street journal traer. he writes history repeats itself when they are in an ironic way the university of texas goes before the...
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there's a massive amount of highly-educated youth who want to solve problems. it's not necessarily about these macroeconomic thing, although those are hugely important, it's about putting youth to work, probably worked around university campuses to solving the whole range of social and economic issues. can be done. it's not that expensive to do, and it involves kind of throwing out the old ideas about how institutions need to be organized to address social problems and kind of read the zoning from the ground up. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, bill. that was very concise for you. thank you. thank you for staying within your half hour. [laughter] no, that was great, thank you. i heard sort of a couple of themes when we talked about morocco and algeria today, that demands are for, not for revolutionary change, but for incremental reform and incremental change. and i'm wondering how governments today, old governments or existing governments, new governments are managing popular expectations of people that things can change quickly enough or in a substantive wa
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these are educate people. you know -- >> guest: more education. >> host: the conclusion of your book is there's going to be a middle class in this country. it's going to be a smaller middle class. fewer points of entry to get to the middle class. there's going to be more concentration of wealthy at the top. >> guest: right. glirk you have more poverty at the bottom. this is a different america that you see coming. you see us becoming extremely divided by money. >> guest: right. >> host: and you quote an ibm researcher, i believe it was an ibm researchers. ralph. who says that global trade is good for these big corporation and hedge fund. it's bad for americans. >> guest: right. it's not good for other, you know, we need to be careful because when we talk kind of beat up a corporation we're talking about the global corporations. with the domestic u.s. corporations being hammered because they had none of the benefit that's global companies do. and they are paying a real price for it. >> host: why do they then, t
these are educate people. you know -- >> guest: more education. >> host: the conclusion of your book is there's going to be a middle class in this country. it's going to be a smaller middle class. fewer points of entry to get to the middle class. there's going to be more concentration of wealthy at the top. >> guest: right. glirk you have more poverty at the bottom. this is a different america that you see coming. you see us becoming extremely divided by money. >> guest:...
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i think just the height of governmental negligence to have our top schools educating foreign students in requiring them to leave, no place should do that. and it is part of an economic strategy for growth in the future. you want to be a magnet for the best talent in the world, and we got to make no bones about it, we're going to compete for the best talent because we're the best environment for the talent spent before we go to questions, jay, then i want to talk about campaign financing. >> so you're looking at california right now, and that massive increase in the cost of gasoline, when matt said, when consumers are paying for gasoline they are not able to purchase their basic commodities every day. so what's happening? governor brown is proposing a relaxation of regulations that impact the energy industry. that is clearly a concession that regulation drives the cost of energy. we've got to have that same focus and discussion here in washington. because what's happening in california can happen all across this country. >> hawaii, i heard -- >> when we do the big deal everybody thinks
i think just the height of governmental negligence to have our top schools educating foreign students in requiring them to leave, no place should do that. and it is part of an economic strategy for growth in the future. you want to be a magnet for the best talent in the world, and we got to make no bones about it, we're going to compete for the best talent because we're the best environment for the talent spent before we go to questions, jay, then i want to talk about campaign financing....
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these are educate people. you know -- >> guest: more education. >> host: the conclusion of your book is there's going to be a middle class in this country. it's going to be a smaller middle class. fewer points of entry to get to the middle class. there's going to be more concentration of wealthy at the top. >> guest: right. glirk you have more poverty at the bottom. this is a different america that you see coming. you see us becoming extremely divided by money. >> guest: right. >> host: and you quote an ibm researcher, i believe it was an ibm researchers. ralph. who says that global trade is good for these big corporation and hedge fund. it's bad for americans. >> guest: right. it's not good for other, you know, we need to be careful because when we talk kind of beat up a corporation we're talking about the global corporations. with the domestic u.s. corporations being hammered because they had none of the benefit that's global companies do. and they are paying a real price for it. >> host: why do they then, t
these are educate people. you know -- >> guest: more education. >> host: the conclusion of your book is there's going to be a middle class in this country. it's going to be a smaller middle class. fewer points of entry to get to the middle class. there's going to be more concentration of wealthy at the top. >> guest: right. glirk you have more poverty at the bottom. this is a different america that you see coming. you see us becoming extremely divided by money. >> guest:...
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you appear moderately educated man. you ice highly trained intellect not the way those who taught you intended way you should but use it as highly sophisticated weapon, don't you? you have finest university teaches in the world. how do you put it to us? common debt veriment to man. for disintegration of society that made it possible for you and pity you're believed in by the power of young with highly intelligence you can move mountains. >> what about my family's freedom and way of living? you don't concern about that. you don't want your warped and distorted sensibilities to interfear with your way of life. >> you're boiling over with energy. you want to change thing. so you look around. see a lot of things that need changing. people kill each other and they shouldn't. people are you hungry and she shouldn't be. people are cold and they're illiterate. they need shelter, they need books. the world needs changing. well it does need changing but if you're going to live with theries of us need to learn to play the game by
you appear moderately educated man. you ice highly trained intellect not the way those who taught you intended way you should but use it as highly sophisticated weapon, don't you? you have finest university teaches in the world. how do you put it to us? common debt veriment to man. for disintegration of society that made it possible for you and pity you're believed in by the power of young with highly intelligence you can move mountains. >> what about my family's freedom and way of...